Picked up a Ketland pistol, pushing my oldest gun back into the 18th century. These were made in Birmingham England during the 1700s and primarily sold by the Hudson Bay Company to fur trappers and indians. Hudson Bay sold all sorts of supplies in Canada and into the US and it's territories. One of it's more well known items through it's history is what is known as the "point blanket" which was popular and introduced about the same time as the Ketland pistol. That's an original 6 point blanket the pistol is resting on in the photo, the "points" referring to the size of the blanket, not the number of beaver pelts it took to trade for it as has been sometimes said. A smoothbore 69 caliber, the pistol was a short range item at best. I'll scare up a mold and see how it shoots. Nothing I've found so far makes me think it won't work just as well as it did centuries ago in the hands of a fur trapper or noble savage deep in the forest.
